Chapter 9 Lyddie Quotes & Sayings

When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go. — Donna Tartt

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, impedes communication because it does not match the subtlety of our minds or emotions, the multimedia of our unconscious life. — Anais Nin

We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this planet is coded in a double helix with a sugar phosphate backbone. And that codes whether you become a bacteria, an orange, a lemon, a Lemur, a Cow, a sheep, a human being, a politician, any one of these things is all coded in this four-letter code. — Juan Enriquez

The moral victory itself may not be so moral after all, not only because suffering often has a narcissistic aspect to it, but also because it renders the victim superior, that is, better than his enemy. Yet no matter how evil your enemy is, the crucial thing is that he is human; and although incapable of loving another like ourselves, we nonetheless know that evil takes root when one man starts to think that he is better than another. — Joseph Brodsky

The way I live is really me. — Katharine Weymouth

When Rhage's beast came out, everyone, the brothers included, looked for shelter and took up praying. — J.R. Ward

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

England and France had made their declaration on Germany. To steal a phrase from Hans Hubermann: The fun begins. — Markus Zusak

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day. — Merce Cunningham

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.' — Adam Sandler

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him. — Ian Astbury

In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.' — Kevin Barry